California Archives

Justice Dept. says California’s pandemic plan should open churches sooner

May 21, 2020

The U.S. Department of Justice is challenging the “unequal treatment of faith communities” in California’s coronavirus reopening plan, warning that continued restrictions on worship services threaten believers’ civil rights to practice their religion.

By Pablo Kay, CNS

Go slow in reopening, two business leaders advise at Santa Clara forum

May 1, 2020

Two business leaders advised going slow when reopening in a pandemic environment during an April 29 forum sponsored by Jesuit-run Santa Clara University in California’s Silicon Valley.

By Mark Pattison

Newsom urged to provide more funds to immigrants, workers during pandemic

Apr 24, 2020

California’s Catholic bishops have asked Gov. Gavin Newsom to increase aid to immigrants without documents and low-wage residents of the state “because the virus doesn’t know the difference between someone who has the right legal documents and those who do not.”

By Catholic News Service

Californians celebrate Easter at home, in cars amid pandemic

Apr 13, 2020

Californians celebrated Easter online or in their cars as they spent the fourth straight weekend under statewide orders to stay indoors to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

By Christopher Weber and Daisy Nguyen

San Bernardino’s new coadjutor welcomed by over 2,500 faithful at Mass

Mar 6, 2020

In his nearly nine years as an auxiliary bishop in Chicago, people warned Bishop Alberto Rojas that something like this might happen.

By Pablo Kay, CNS

German Catholics, California both live up to their billing in Super Tuesday votes

Mar 5, 2020

Germany has become to Church politics what California is on the American scene, meaning a strongly blue state which tends to favor the most progressive choice on any menu.

By John L. Allen Jr.